SEC Company Response from BIOLARGO, INC. (BLGO) (CIK 0000880242) (BLGO) — Jan 31, 2007
BIOLARGO, INC. (BLGO) (CIK 0000880242)
Date: Jan. 31, 2007 · CIK: 0000880242 · Accession: 0001144204-07-004583
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File numbers found in text: 000-19709
Referenced dates: November 29, 2006, November 29, 2006
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SEC
LAW FIRM
11693
San Vicente Boulevard, Suite 357
Los
Angeles, CA 90049
Tel.
310-557-3059
Fax.
310-388-1320
www.seclawfirm.com
January
31, 2007
Kurt
Murao, Esq.
United
States Securities and Exchange Commission
Division
of Corporation Finance
Washington,
D.C. 20549
Re:
NuWay
Medical, Inc. Preliminary Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A Filed January 8,
2007
(SEC File No. 000-19709)
Dear
Mr.
Murao:
NuWay
Medical Inc. (the “Registrant”) is responding to the written comments of the
staff (the “Staff”) of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the
“Commission”) dated January 26, 2007 (the “Second Comment Letter”) and refers to
the comments of the Staff of the Commission in its letter dated November 29,
2006 (the “First Comment Letter”). The Registrant’s responses are keyed to the
numbered comments of the Staff contained in the Comment Letter, which are set
forth in full below, immediately preceding each response.
General
1.
We
note your response to comment 1 in our letter dated November 29, 2006 indicating
that you have submitted a response to us on December 11, 2006. As further
comments have been issued, please comply with any outstanding comments that
were
issued as part of our review of your Form 10-KSB for fiscal year ended December
31,2005 and Forms 10-QSB for fiscal quarters ended March 31, 2006, June 30,
2006
and September 30, 2006.
Response:
The
Registrant submitted its first written response to the Staff on December 11,
2006 and its second written response to the Staff on January 26, 2007, and
filed
Amendment No.2 to its Quarterly Report on Form 10-QSB for the period ended
September 30, 2007 on January 29, 2007.
2.
We
note that you have included the bulleted representations that we requested
at
the end of the response letter. Please note that these representations must
come
from the registrant directly under separate cover.
Response:
The
Registrant has filed the requested information under separate cover dated of
even date.
Proposal
1, page 2
Executive
Compensation, page 8
3.
Please update and revise your disclosure to comply with the new executive
compensation disclosure rules which went effective on November 7, 2006 for
years
ending on or after December 15, 2006. See SEC Release No. 33-8732A (August
29,
2006).
Response:
In light
of the Staff’s comment and considering the virtual certainty that the
Registrant, as a small public company with limited financial and personnel
resources, could not comply with the expansive and extensive new executive
compensation disclosure rules in a matter of just a few days, the Registrant
has
decided not to include the election of directors as an item for stockholder
action at the upcoming meeting. Accordingly, the Registrant will delete Proposal
1, the election of directors, from the proxy statement and also will delete
Proposal 6, approval of the 2006 Stock Option Plan, and Proposal 7, ratification
of appointment of auditor, from the meeting agenda. The Registrant will address
these matters at its 2007 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. The upcoming meeting
will be held as a Special Meeting of Stockholders, solely to address the
transactional proposals, 2, 3, 4 and 5, which have been renumbered as Proposals
1, 2, 3 and 4. In light of the foregoing, the Registrant respectfully requests
that the Staff withdraw this comment at this time.
Proposal
2, page 13
4.
Please expand your disclosure to provide the information required by Item 303
of
Regulation S-K as to IOWC Technologies, Inc. See Item 14(c)(2) of Schedule
14A
and Item 17(b)(5) of Form S-4.
Response:
Regarding
Item 14(c)(2) of Schedule 14A, as mentioned in response to the First Comment
Letter, please be advised that the Registrant is not registering any shares
of
it common stock, because it is relying on the exemption from registration in
Section 4(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended and/or Regulation D
promulgated thereunder in offering shares of its common stock to the company
whose assets are being acquired, IOWC Technologies, Inc. (“IOWC”). IOWC is a
Canadian corporation, whose shares of capital stock are owned by a single
shareholder, Kenneth R. Code. IOWC will receive restricted securities in the
transaction, the certificates for which will bear an appropriate legend. IOWC
and Mr. Code, as its shareholder, will approve the sale of substantially all
of
its assets in accordance with the laws of Canada and/or the province of Alberta.
Because the proposed transaction is structured as the sale of assets by IOWC,
IOWC will continue to exist after the consummation of the transaction and will
continue to have a single stockholder, Mr. Code. Therefore, the Registrant
believes that providing a Management’s Discussion and Analysis or Plan of
Operations (“MD&A”) for IOWC would not be meaningful to the Registrant’s
stockholders. Instead, the Registrant proposes to include, and has included,
a
“Plan of Operations After Consummation of the Transactions”, immediately
preceding the pro forma financial statements contained in Proposal 2 (now
renumbered Proposal 1). The disclosure is furnished in compliance with Item
303
of Regulation S-B, since the Registrant is a small business issuer as defined
in
Rule 405 promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. The
Registrant believes that this is a more meaningful disclosure for its
stockholders to understand what the Registrant’s plans are and will be following
the consummation of the transactions with IOWC. In light of the foregoing,
the
Registrant respectfully requests that the Staff modify its comment to permit
the
furnishing of a “plan of operations” in lieu of an MD&A for
IOWC.
Background
of the BioLargo Transactions, page 15
5.
We
note your response to comment 2 in our letter dated November 29, 2006.
Please
expand your disclosure to more fully and specifically discuss the consideration
negotiations between you and lOWC, including the relevant dates that resulted
in
the determination that you will issue a total of 553,475,300 shares of common
stock for certain technology and rights relating to the BioLargo
Technology.
Response:
The
discussion contained under “Proposal 2 [now renumbered as Proposal 1] -
Background of the BioLargo Transactions” has been expanded to include fuller
discussion of the negotiations between the Registrant and IOWC with respect
to
the determination of the consideration to be paid by the Registrant to IOWC
in
the form of 553,475,300 shares of common stock for the BioLargo
Technology.
In
connection with the foregoing response, the Registrant acknowledges
that:
·
It
is responsible for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in
its
filings;
·
Staff
comments of changes to disclosure in response to Staff comments do
not
foreclose the Commission from taking any action with respect to the
filing; and
·
The
Registrant may not assert Staff comments as a defense in any proceeding
initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal securities
laws of the United States.
Please
respond to the undersigned with any further comments or any other communications
regarding the Comment Letter.
Very
truly yours,
/s/
Lance Jon Kimmel
Lance
Jon Kimmel